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arreptitious

arreptitious adjective: possessed; raving; isolated from reality.

Adjective

arreptitious (comparative more arreptitious, superlative most arreptitious)

  1. Possessed; raving; isolated from reality.
    • He denieth to have received the spirit of the world, that is as Anselme hath it, an arreptitious spirit, called Python, to divine conjecture1631, John Mayer, A Commentarie Vpon All the Epistles of the Apostle Pavl, Being fourteen
  2. Taken away; also sneaked in surreptitiously.https://books.google.com.au/books?id=K_lmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP26&dq=arreptitious&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy5JPExMbRAhULkZQKHR6-AYs4ChDoAQgxMAM#v=onepage&q=arreptitious&f=false

Forms of arreptitious

comparativemore arreptitious
superlativemost arreptitious

Origin of arreptitious

Borrowed from Latin arreptīcius.

Questions about arreptitious

What does arreptitious mean?
Arreptitious means possessed; raving; isolated from reality.
What part of speech is arreptitious?
Arreptitious is an adjective.

Words near arreptitious in the dictionary

  1. arrentations
  2. Arrente
  3. Arreola
  4. Arreolas
  5. arreption
  6. arreptitious
  7. arrer
  8. Arrernte
  9. Arrerntes
  10. arrers
  11. arrest

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